Jesse crawled into bed, and it was going on midnight. After dinner she had packed up the leftovers and driven them over to her mom’s place two streets over. She knew Hector would take the food to work the next day as his lunch.
Her mother had grilled her about how things were going at the mansion in Staten Island and Jesse had said she was getting the work done and Doctor Haugen didn’t appear to have any complaints. Her mother had pressed her, saying she seemed to be hiding something, but Jesse had argued saying she was exhausted from teaching Taekwondo earlier in the evening prior to cooking and having dinner with her brother. Her mother appeared to buy her story about being tired and Jesse was grateful.
She felt Fluffy get on the bed and scratch at the blankets to get under them. She l
